The Seventh Workshop on Information Theoretic Methods in Science and Engineering (WITMSE) will be held in Waikiki, Hawaii, USA, on July 5–7, 2014. The workshop will cover hot topics at the intersection of statistics, information theory, machine learning, and their applications. The technical program will include plenary lectures and invited talks.

WITMSE 2014 takes place right after the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2014), so that participants to ISIT can conveniently attend both events.

News

May 28, 2014

Website up and running: see content on the left

June 19, 2014

Online registration open: CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

June 26, 2014

Detailed technical programme available

July 1, 2014

Note changes in the times of the reception and the banquet dinner: see the programme

February 16, 2015

Proceedings online

Important dates

Registration deadline (for speakers)	June 30, 2014
Banquet registration deadline	June 30, 2014
Workshop dates	July 5–7, 2014
Abstract submission deadline	July 15 (after the workshop)

Keynote speaker

• Jorma Rissanen, HIIT: Entropy and Estimation of Random ML models

Plenary speakers

• Venkat Anantharam, UC Berkeley: Entropy power inequalities: results and speculation
• Wojciech Szpankowski, Purdue: Structural Information

Organization

Honorary chair:

• Jorma Rissanen, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT

Programme co-chairs:

• Petri Myllymäki, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT
• Teemu Roos, University of Helsinki
• Narayana Prasad Santhanam, University of Hawaii

The workshop is organized jointly by the Department of Computer Science of the University of Helsinki, the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, and by the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Hawaii, and is sponsored by the Center for Science of Information.